Peak Oil and the Fate of Humanity
Online Powerpoint book on Peak Oil: the importance of oil, possible substitutes and coming difficulties.
Energy Policy
When PR goes nuclear
Thorough examination of how the nuclear industry in the UK has used climate fears to resurrected itself – with lots of help from PR agencies, ex-ministers and other highly paid pillars of the establishment.
Goodbye American Dreamland
A definite trend is afoot. What we can call The Convergence of America is just ahead. It will not be as in the past, but more in spirit as we grapple with the loss of petroleum and the end of economic growth. Rather than as a nationalistic single entity, we will come together in the knowledge that our separate and equal, diverse bioregions are our real homelands.
In my long career of concern over oil pollution — from my days of serving the oil industry, to fighting it, to predicting the imminent end of abundant supply — I have never been as exhilarated as now to think that a change is in the wind. [Report on conversation between Lundberg and Rep. Roscoe Bartlett]
BBC poll on what to cover: Vote Peak Oil!
BBC Online are holding a poll on which story readers want to see more coverage of.
Reversing the Polarity – Bretton Woods revisited?
… The requirement is therefore for an Energy “Clearing Union” comprising all market participant constituencies whether producers, consumers or intermediaries, constituted as an “International Energy Trade Association” (“IETA”) and served by a consortium of providers of services such as communications, technology, risk management and so on.
Transcript: Fourth Peak Oil Presentation by US Congressman Bartlett, collegues.
The Fourth Special Order speech on Peak Oil to the US Congress by Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, accompanied by Rep.’s Ehlers, Gilchrest, Inglis, and Wamp.
Kyoto-style Protocol for Global Oil Depletion to be Debated at International Conference in Lisbon
Current and former elected officials will debate a proposed international agreement to avoid global conflict over the world’s depleting oil supplies during a conference at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon on 19 May 2005.
Transcript: Third Peak Oil Presentation by Congressman Bartlett
The third Special Order speech on Peak Oil to the US Congress by Rep. Roscoe Bartlett. This time Bartlett opens with a quote by Matt Savinar of the popular website LifeAfterTheOilCrash.net. [updated 10 May with graphics]
Asian countries subsidizing fuel hit hard by higher oil prices
KUALA LUMPUR : Higher oil prices are creating major problems for Asian countries which subsidize fuel costs, threatening economic growth if the subsidies are kept in place and consumer outrage if they are not.
New Zealand first to levy carbon tax
New Zealanders will pay an extra NZ$2.90 (£1.11) a week for electricity, petrol and gas when the country becomes the first in the world to introduce a carbon tax to address global warming.
Interview with Roscoe Bartlett on Peak Oil
Rep. Roscoe Bartlett discusses his special order speeches about Peak Oil to the US Congress and how the public has responded to them. Transcript now available.
Carter Tried To Stop Bush’s Energy Disasters – 35 Years Ago
Consider President Jimmy Carter’s April 18, 1977 speech….It was the speech that established the strategic petroleum reserve, birthed the modern solar power industry, led to the insulation of millions of American homes, and established America’s first national energy policy. “With the exception of preventing war,” said Jimmy Carter, a man of peace, “this is the greatest challenge our country will face during our lifetimes.”
